The IFCMA Climate Policy Database systematically classifies and describes policy instruments across member countries, enabling detailed analysis and comparison. It captures information on the design features of policy instruments, including the regulated agents, assets and activities, as well as the level of the legal obligation – referred to as intensity.
This structured approach supports a better understanding of the diversity of mitigation or mitigation-relevant strategies, facilitates comparative analysis across jurisdictions, and enables new empirical analysis and mutual learning. Over time, the database aims to integrate information on each instruments’ greenhouse gas (GHG) emission base, offering insights into the specific emissions targeted.
The IFCMA Climate Policy Database focusses on the level of the policy instruments, i.e. tools through which governments encourage, mandate, or guide behaviour to achieve specific objectives by creating rules, offering services, reallocating resources, or providing information. In addition, the IFCMA Climate Policy Database also records subschemes of policy instruments, i.e. variations of the main policy instrument e.g. introducing differentiated requirements or provisions for specific targetted segments of the general policy target.
The XLS file linked below includes all data as well as a short description of the database and underlying definitions. The CSV file contains only the data.